A Melbourne, Australia man identified only as “Laurence” was the butt of many a joke, after showing his own butt — and everything else — to officials trying to spring him from a washing machine he’d been stuck in, after crawling in there to play a joke on his girlfriend.

Laurence, 20, said in an interview with Australia’s Fairfax Radio that he devised the rib on a lark, only to become horrified when he realized he couldn’t spring himself from the home appliance. After calling a friend, who summoned the cops, the man was lubricated enough — with olive oil he had in the house — to get him out of the machine.